Section: US & Canada

What do Burlington, Vermont; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Erie, Pennsylvania have in common? Despite their different locations and economic histories and political orientations, all three have been consciously incorporating and welcoming refugees into their towns for decades. They have played this role starting with the waves of refugees to the...

Emails from one of Vladmir Putin’s top aides have been released by a Ukrainian group and allege the Kremlin controlled the Crimean separatists movement that led to Russia taking over the region. …read more Source: USA...

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Friday said his government may submit a bill revoking his country’s support for the treaty establishing closer ties between the European Union and Ukraine. Rutte has said rejection of the association agreement would be a mistake and would weaken European unity, but that if efforts to find a compromise...

If I had a dollar for every time I was presented with this question in recent months, I probably wouldn’t need to write this column. Since the early spring, it was asked by at least one person at every meeting I’ve had with groups or delegations visiting Israel from the United States.It’s a question that is almost impossible to...

NATO is not seeking a return to a Cold War standoff with Russia, the alliance’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told the BBC Thursday. The former Norwegian prime minister, who has served as NATO’s top diplomatic official since 2014, defended the alliance’s new security measures in Europe, which Russia has called aggressive....

WELLINGTON, New Zealand—The countries that decide the fate of Antarctica’s waters reached an historic agreement on Friday to create the world’s largest marine protected area in the ocean next to the frozen continent. The agreement comes after years of diplomatic wrangling and high-level talks between the U.S. and Russia, which has...